Austin | Historic Images & Postcards - Page 39

brdrcksn · #**761** Posted **Jun 14, 2017, 4:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

Also, I think the 7-11 building is still there. There is an old convenient store currently occupying that same footprint. But it has been remodeled a few times just during the years Streeetview was available.

Looking at Historic Aerials, I don't the 7-11 is still there, unless they moved the building. It is in the 1952-1973 aerials, but in the 1985 aerial, the building is further away from Airport at its current location.

The West Winds Motel may have been under construction in the 1954 aerial. It is shown in the 1964-1973 aerials, maybe being demolished in 1985, then gone in 1995.

The gas station on the corner is in the 1952-1966 aerials, it looks like the site was cleared in the 1973 aerial, and the current building was there in 1985.

The 45th St railroad crossing must have been added sometime between 1954 - 1964

It looks like the house on the north side of 46th St, just across the railroad tracks is still there from the photo (and probably the houses behind it).

BTW, the new spotlight tool on Historic Aerials is a really nice way to compare aerial maps: click on the flashlight along the left side of the map near the top, then select a second map for it on the right side of the map.

The ATX · #**762** Posted **Jun 19, 2017, 6:12 AM**

From the Statesman. Heading North on MoPac in 1975 at 5:00PM:

http://austinfound.blog.statesman.co...in-sweetheart/

drummer · #**763** Posted **Jun 19, 2017, 9:02 AM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

From the Statesman. Heading North on MoPac in 1975 at 5:00PM:

http://austinfound.blog.statesman.co...in-sweetheart/

I bet there were people who argued against three lanes in each direction back then... "There would never be a need for that. Not enough people will use it!"

Kinda sounds like the arguments against rail, etc.

KevinFromTexas · #**764** Posted **Jul 7, 2017, 9:11 PM**

Speaking of Stubb's and Liberty Lunch, the American-Statesman had this trip down memory lane set of photos today, and at the same time I was looking at this Google Earth screenshot and the angle of these two is pretty much exactly the same.

May 23, 1999

http://www.statesman.com/entertainme...1ZlvEO6qeP/#22

2014

KevinFromTexas · #**765** Posted **Jul 11, 2017, 8:35 AM**

The Frost Bank Tower block back in the day.

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resansom · #**766** Posted **Jul 11, 2017, 2:40 PM**

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The Frost Bank Tower block back in the day.

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corvairkeith · #**767** Posted **Jul 11, 2017, 2:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

The Frost Bank Tower block back in the day.

For some reason I can't take my eyes off the car in the lower right foreground.

jg6544 · #**768** Posted **Jul 11, 2017, 4:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by corvairkeith

For some reason I can't take my eyes off the car in the lower right foreground.

Might be a '65 Corvair, which was the first car I purchased (bought it in Austin, too).

corvairkeith · #**769** Posted **Jul 11, 2017, 5:23 PM**

It's definitely a 65-67 Corvair in base model 500 trim. You cant tell the exact year from that photo without seeing the hubcaps but it's not a 68 or 69 since it doesn't have side marker lights. Here's my 65 Monza with my 64 Greenbrier van and my 61 Lakewood wagon.

urbancore · #**770** Posted **Jul 11, 2017, 7:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by corvairkeith

It's definitely a 65-67 Corvair in base model 500 trim. You cant tell the exact year from that photo without seeing the hubcaps but it's not a 68 or 69 since it doesn't have side marker lights. Here's my 65 Monza with my 64 Greenbrier van and my 61 Lakewood wagon.

Dammmmn....SON!

Daddy likey!

I drive unsafe at any speed!

KevinFromTexas · #**771** Posted **Jul 11, 2017, 9:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by corvairkeith

For some reason I can't take my eyes off the car in the lower right foreground.

Awe shucks, I didn't notice that.

I wasn't paying attention to the cars. Now that I am, though, I see an old Ford Courier parked over there. My dad had an early 70s one as his work truck in the early 90s. I would love one of those now. I liked how barebones they were.

KevinFromTexas · #**772** Posted **Aug 7, 2017, 5:33 PM**

This picture gets me every time. It's so cool. I mean, a photo from 1952 that is colorized and a freaking train crossing Congress Avenue. And the cars and the buses and no skyscrapers. It's like a mini-window into yesteryear.

Photo by Heinz Joachim Held - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

This one is from 1964.

Photo by J. Parker Lamb. - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

And another. No date on this one, but it was after 1984 since the One American Center was there. I didn't realize they were still running trains across Congress that late in the century. Someone replied to my question about this, and they said they stopped crossing in either 87 or 88 after they moved the interchange to McNeil.

Danny Marvain - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

Jdawgboy · #**773** Posted **Aug 7, 2017, 5:58 PM**

Notice the lack of train crossing gaurds.

If only they extended the red line past Congress. It's a shame that they didn't preserve and utilize the track.

drummer · #**774** Posted **Aug 8, 2017, 12:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by Jdawgboy

Notice the lack of train crossing gaurds.

If only they extended the red line past Congress. It's a shame that they didn't preserve and utilize the track.

I've often thought the same thing. The only way it would ever happen now is as a subway...and the likelihood of that ever happening is slim at best.

LoneStarMike · #**775** Posted **Aug 8, 2017, 4:10 AM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

And another. No date on this one, but it was after 1984 since the One American Center was there. I didn't realize they were still running trains across Congress that late in the century. Someone replied to my question about this, and they said they stopped crossing in either 87 or 88 after they moved the interchange to McNeil.

Danny Marvain - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

I'm thinking 1986 or so is the photo date because what you can see of 301 Congress looks finished and I think that building was completed in 1986.

The ATX · #**776** Posted **Sep 16, 2017, 12:47 AM**

Now, this looks like a Warehouse District. I don't have a link for this. But it came up in a Twitter search and is credited to the Austin Public Library via Scott Fisher at MyFox7. Can anyone guess the intersection?

wwmiv · #**777** Posted **Sep 16, 2017, 12:59 AM**

That's 3rd and Lavaca, judging by the placements of the Norwood Tower, Capitol, and Brown Building and the faint hint of a rail line.

KevinFromTexas · #**778** Posted **Sep 16, 2017, 1:07 AM**

Well, the building up there with the columns is the Claudia-Taylor-Johnson Hall. It's at 6th & Lavaca. It's sort of hard to count the blocks since they aren't too well defined, but I think I counted 4 blocks south of it. That should put the Walter Tips Co. building in the 200 block of Lavaca.

There's also this link that seems to show an expanded building. This says it was located at 2nd & Colorado.

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth19286/

The ATX · #**779** Posted **Sep 16, 2017, 1:12 AM**

It also looks like the buildings that became Bob's/Ginger Man and Trulock's are to the north of 3rd St. I came across this while I was looking for an old photo of the Sullivan's/3rd & Colorado tower site.

MichaelB · #**780** Posted **Sep 16, 2017, 5:04 AM**

Yep . 3rd and Lavaca. Up one block you can see the building that Lavaca street bar in in... and Halcyon!